2008 advertising expenditures for this year’s Best Film nominees:

RANK
FILM
EXPENDITURES (millions)

1
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
$31.0

2
Milk
$11.3

3
Frost/Nixon
$11.3

4
Slumdog Millionaire
$6.1

5
The Reader
$4.6

source: The Nielsen Company 2009NOTE: Figures do not include Internet or Outdoor ad expenditures